#tash aw

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{08.02.21}

Currently reading:

I got this paperback edition as part of the ShelterBox Book Club, but I also got a hardback edition in one of my A Box of Stories (which I gave to my mum). I'm finally getting around to reading it!

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New from FSG and Malaysian novelist Tash Aw, We the Survivors. (Read an interview with the author here.)

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That was how memory worked; it was the opposite of recollection... never as strong as we thought it was, always relinquishing the instances that mattered most to us.

— Tash Aw, The South (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 27, 2025)

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The South: A Novel

By Tash Aw.

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Édouard Louis and Tash Aw: An Autopsy of Society | Spencer Quong

What becomes possible when you collaborate with a close friend? Louis and Aw reflect on bringing A Woman’s Battles and Transformations into

TA: Édouard you also talk very powerfully in the book about your own culpability in the system, before you had critical distance. 

ÉL: It was very important to me to show that, before this liberation, all the violence my mother was suffering from — I was a part of it. Children are fascists, basically. I was seeing my mother being treated so badly by men and as a kid I would reproduce this; I didn’t want her to talk, I didn’t want her to exist. Kids are fascist in the sense that they learn very quickly the way the world functions and reproduce it.

TA: They reproduce it without nuance.

ÉL: They’re like bombs. But when my mother changed, and when I changed, and we escaped, we built another relationship which was based on an undoing of this mutual violence. Every day my mother is trying to not be the woman that she was when I was a child. And every day I’m trying to not be the child that I was with her when I was a kid. 

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“Friendship is not a requirement for closeness”

-Tash Aw, ‘We the Survivors’

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We, the Survivors (Tash Aw)

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Structural Injustice Is At The Core Of 'We, The Survivors'

Tash Aw's beautifully written new novel focuses on class issues in contemporary Malaysia, where his compelling protagonist is struggling to lead a quiet life after a long-ago murder conviction.

We, the Survivors by Tash Aw

US: https://amzn.to/2Lj21Gu

UK: https://amzn.to/2ZxKao4